MadMuscles vs Gymverse
Choose Gymverse for a more reliable and user-friendly experience.
Gymverse generally offers a better user experience with fewer complaints about customer service and app reliability compared to MadMuscles. Users appreciate Gymverse's workout planning features and helpful video instructions, while MadMuscles faces criticism for misleading pricing and poor customer support.
Head to head
you want a free app with a variety of workouts and can tolerate some usability issues.
you prefer a more reliable app with better customer support and are willing to pay for a premium experience.
Evidence note: While MadMuscles has a significant number of positive reviews, the recent negative feedback about pricing and support raises concerns about user satisfaction.
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R9] MadMuscles Good App: Good App, but it would be better if the videos could be streamed to a bigger screen via AirPlay. Also, it would be helpful if clients could start new chats with coaches, because at random times chats crash and we as clients don’t have any other means of contacting coaches to let them know that the current chat thread has crashed and no longer working.
- [R49] MadMuscles Incomplete at best: This app has great intentions, but is incomplete in content at best. If you are looking for simple 10-15 min workouts a day that you cannot choose or switch styles of workout this will work for you. There are different styles of workouts to choose from, however, once you switch you need to start at day one of their program and cannot skip ahead and it doesn’t track your progres
- [R62] Gymverse Great App: This app is great for anyone who needs some help in the gym. The videos and explanations are helpful. Would like to see more updates with more advanced machines on here Like the pendulum squat machine, some Tricep machines. Commercial gyms are starting to now offer more machines and the apps doesn’t always have them Machines.
- [R84] Gymverse Needs more exercises: Great app but it lacks a lot of exercises that you’d find in other apps. Where are all the cable exercises? Simple things like that should be in the app.
- [R11] MadMuscles Love these workouts: This app is extremely easy to use. They have workouts premade for you. You just have to follow them and it's very good.
- [R46] MadMuscles No sound on workouts: The workouts have no sound which makes it hard to follow on a tiny screen
- [R72] Gymverse Decent app but keeps crashing: Good modules but as you near the end of the workout, the app just crashes.
- [R113] Gymverse Love it!: Plans your whole workout for you. Less thinking, more doing. Keeps me consistent and productive at the gym. The workouts are well designed to develop a balanced physique. Absolutely worth it.
- [R16] MadMuscles Beware!: Curious to signed up for trial. When creating account you get bombarded with pop up’s and options. I clicked on one that signed me up for meal planning. Realized it when I saw $60 charge. I immediately contacted them to ask it be taken off but was repeatedly told no. Horrible customer service and all around scammy.
- [R22] MadMuscles Fraud: Tried canceling and they keep trying to charge me. Stay away
- [R64] Gymverse Annoying bugs: I really like this app, enough that I pay $20 a month for it. But it’s super annoying that trying to edit your workouts MAKES THE WHOLE APP FREEZE AND HARDLOCK AND IT DOESNT SAVE THE CHANGES!!!!!
- [R100] Gymverse Cannot contact: It charged a yearly fee when it should be monthly. Cannot contact anyone to change or refund because it does not pull up a receipt of purchase
- [R1] MadMuscles Don’t buy this: Do not get this app. It is very misleading. There is no free trial. They charge you anyway find these workouts online yourself for free.
- [R25] MadMuscles Stay away save your money useless: I had a very disappointing experience with MadMuscles. I signed up because I was told I would only be charged $10. Instead, I was unexpectedly charged $90. I contacted customer support multiple times by email to explain the situation and request a refund. After a long back-and-forth, they refused to issue a full refund and only offered me $30 back. I feel the p
- [R85] Gymverse $120/year: Come on y’all. This app was $60/year (honestly I paid that with ease). However, you all have become so money hungry that you decided to double the price?! Glad I cancelled. Thankfully ChatGPT exists and you can create your own app much easier now. Count your days Gymverse.
- [R88] Gymverse IT IS NOT FREE: Free app… $119 for the year to use it
- [R28] MadMuscles Impossible to get relevant support from this site.: Terrible service.
- [R86] Gymverse Customer service: It’s usually incredibly difficult to get any real human help when you need it. Gymverse was great. I was using it for most of last year and then I broke my foot. I could no longer do strength training. (Do not come at me with chair work outs etc, this is basic background info). I reached out to the company since I would not be able to use the tool for many months and asked if the
- [R77] Gymverse Love this app: My favorite app!!! It’s so easy to set up and swap out different exercises. As a gym girl this is the best app to track and push myself in workouts. Also shout out to their customer service. I purchased a membership when I had my android and then bought an iPhone and they were super nice in helping me.
- [R91] Gymverse Poor Advertising: Advertised price of 30% percent off but actually billed and charged the full price. No answer from support. Won’t be renewing, there’s a ton of other apps out there.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store